A year for medical innovations – 2018 highlights series

Of all the stories we researched for the Victorian Connection this year, it was those involving public health intervention and medical technologies which captivated our readers most.

We spoke to a number of Victorians involved in this sector and discovered extraordinary innovations as well as ambitious solutions to global health challenges.

Read on to learn more.

Melbourne’s fight against eye health crisis

Can preventable blindness in Australia’s Indigenous communities be phased out by 2020? Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor and his team at the University of Melbourne are working on it. Read more about their work.

A chat with…bionic eye trailblazer, Dr Lauren Ayton

Melbourne start-up Atmo Biosciences clinches international prize

And potentially one of the most far-reaching medical breakthroughs was an ingestible capsule which can help identify gut disorders, something that affects one in five people. We chat to the team to find out more.